November 2024 – April 2025
This report summarizes the actions and accomplishments of Web3j, an LF Decentralized Belief mission, from November 2024 to April 2025. Throughout this era, the mission made vital strides in enhancing the framework’s performance, enhancing consumer engagement, and bolstering total group interplay.
Key highlights embrace profitable library upgrades, a noteworthy LF Decentralized Belief mentorship initiative, and important integrations that elevate Web3j’s capabilities and compatibility. This doc outlines the achievements towards beforehand set targets and gives an summary of further developments that enrich the Web3j ecosystem.
The present mission roadmap is public and might be discovered right here.
Objectives Achieved
Over the past six months, the mission has achieved the next targets:
Improve web3j-android department to the newest model and launch libraries as Android artifacts – this was completed through the 2024 mentorship beneath Hyperledger Basis:Organized the First Web3J Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit – an occasion at which we related with the enterprise customers of Web3j and picked up suggestions:Join with the group via numerous occasions:Solved bugs and closed a part of the open points: Closed 15 open points throughout all Web3j repositories;Carried out, reviewed, and merged over 20 Pull requests within the Web3j repositories that fastened completely different bugs or improved the functionalities, corresponding to:Repair ENS CCIP, ERC-3668Fix construct scripts on web3j-androidFix Web3j Transaction logic to return the anticipated chainId when interacting with Solidity 0.8.26 or 0.8.27 Clear subscription after EVM websocket disconnectsCatch all of the exception throughout EVM response parsingImprove codebase by fixing Sonar reported issuesExtended ENS integration help (particulars on this weblog put up):Added help for HoleskySet Major Identify functionalityManage ENS report metadataManage ENS Service metadataRefactor the off-chain gasoline supplier contained in the library to work dynamically: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2142Enhanced Web3j libraries by migration to Java 21, Kotlin 2.1.0 and integration with a newer model of the EVM consumer, Besu:Prague/Electra Improve:EIP-7702 help: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2178
Different Accomplishments
Besides the targets talked about above we managed to attain different accomplishments additionally for Web3j mission:
Eliminated “Hyperledger” from the mission title to streamline the Web3j model beneath LF Decentralized TrustSubmitted and obtained approval for 2 Web3j mentorship applications, which is able to happen in 2025, beneath Linux Basis Decentralized Belief Membership Program:LFDT – Web3j Libraries Full Improvement Lifecycle – This mission goals to boost the core Web3j by enhancing and bringing updated its element libraries as web3j-unit, web3j-evm, web3j-openapi, specializing in lowering current points and integrating the lacking EIPs. By enhancing the extra Web3j libraries, we purpose to streamline improvement workflows, improve testability, and create a extra strong framework that simplifies Ethereum improvement for Java and JVM-based tasks.LFDT – Web3j: Enhancing JVM Android Assist with Kotlin Wrappers for Solidity Good Contracts – This mission proposes to construct upon the accomplishments of the prior mentorship by additional enhancing and increasing the functionalities of the Web3j-Android library. Given Kotlin’s prominence as the popular programming language for Android improvement, this initiative goals particularly to facilitate the technology of Kotlin-based sensible contract wrappers.Added help for Solidity variations 0.8.27, 0.8.28, 0.8.29 in web3j compiler (web3j-sokt) for processing new Solidity Good ContractsFixed exterior imports of the Solidity Good Contracts for the ensuing Java Wrappers to be able to handle complicated sensible contracts that are utilizing completely different libraries inside the web3j: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j-solidity-gradle-plugin/pull/78Improved the Java Wrapper sensible contract technology for recordsdata which have duplicate occasion names: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2124Added RPC help for Linea networks: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2150Added help for Solidity Customized Error Kind: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2173Released three variations for the library throughout this era:
The previous six months have marked appreciable progress for the Web3j mission. The profitable completion of main updates, together with the numerous improve to web3j-android and improved ENS integration, exemplifies the workforce’s dedication to steady enchancment and innovation.
Moreover, proactive group engagement, highlighted by the primary Web3j Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit and frequent contributor interactions, has fostered a extra vibrant and collaborative setting. Trying ahead, accepted mentorship applications and ongoing enhancements underscore a promising trajectory for Web3j, making certain it stays a strong, versatile device for Ethereum and sensible contract builders.
